Course Spotlight

Epidemiology represents the current paradigm for thinking about disease through exposure, transmission, spread, morbidity and mortality, and offers us a timely case study in how data is transformed from an abstract representation into a narrative about public health. 

Combining an introduction to digital GIS tools, critical GIS theory, and traditional archival research, this course explores the historical entanglements between water and imperial expansion in the western United States and Nile Valley from the nineteenth century to the present.

This 8-unit immersive course supports students in a unique exploration of Shakespearean works on page and stage. Scholarships are available to offset the unit fees associated with the course.

This course will examine the utopian dream through history, literature, philosophy, and public memory. Starting with a historical and philosophical background of the concepts and unintended consequences of idealism, the course will then turn to focus more narrowly on our own planned community of Isla Vista. Scholarships are available to offset the unit fees associated with the course, and it fulfills GE requirements for Area E and Writing. 

Conversational interactions hold people together, and language provides building blocks for conversation — but the nuts and bolts of conversation usually fly under our radar. If you’re interested in investigating how language works using engaging visuals, this course is for you.

This course investigates virtual reality and studies the imminent integration of real and virtual worlds.

Explore how translators use technology to produce translations and how researchers utilize technology to conduct translation experiments. This course is open to students with language backgrounds other than Spanish.